The reaffirmation of American faith in the comprehensive high school, as expressed in the Conant study, is another indication of the liveliness of the ideal of maximizing opportunity through the equalizing of educational opportunity.

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

A longitudinal study published in February 2006 in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology showed a link between psychosocial stress and bacterial vaginosis independent of other risk factors.

The same year, a study by the Boston Society for Psychical Research concluded that Chaplin was " an American obsession.

The diversity of systems and phenomena available for study makes condensed matter physics the most active field of contemporary physics: one third of all American physicists identify themselves as condensed matter physicists, and The Division of Condensed Matter Physics ( DCMP ) is the largest division of the American Physical Society.

In 1941, American cavers organized themselves into the National Speleological Society ( NSS ) to advance the exploration, conservation, study, and understanding of caves in the United States.

A 40-year study of African, Asian, and South American tropical forests by the University of Leeds, shows tropical forests absorb about 18 % of all carbon dioxide added by fossil fuels.

In October 2009, the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors ( AACCA ), a subsidiary of Varsity Brands, released a study that analyzed the data from Emergency Room visits of all high school athletes.

The American impressionist Mary Cassatt, who at one point lived in Paris to study art, and joined his Impressionist group, noted that he was “ such a teacher that he could have taught the stones to draw correctly .”

Eisenhower's stint as president of Columbia University was punctuated by his activity within the Council on Foreign Relations, a study group he led as president concerning the political and military implications of the Marshall Plan, and The American Assembly, Eisenhower's " vision of a great cultural center where business, professional and governmental leaders could meet from time to time to discuss and reach conclusions concerning problems of a social and political nature ".

A 2008 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed that dieters who kept a daily food diary ( or diet journal ), lost twice as much weight as those who did not keep a food log, suggesting that if you write your food down, you wouldn't eat as many calories.

Nice wrote to Joseph Grinnell in 1932, trying to get foreign literature reviewed in the Condor: " Too many American ornithologists have despised the study of the living bird ; the magazines and books that deal with the subject abound in careless statements, anthropomorphic interpretations, repetition of ancient errors, and sweeping conclusions from a pitiful array of facts.

Among his substantial publications from this period were his book on " Time Perspective in the Aboriginal American Culture " ( 1916 ), in which he laid out an approach to using historical linguistics to study the prehistory of Native American cultures.

Environmental law courses are offered as elective courses in the second and third years of JD study at many American law schools.

Introductory educational psychology is a commonly required area of study in most North American teacher education programs.

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

An anthropometric study of 1197 North American adult Caucasian males ( mean age 35. 5 years ) found that a man's foot length was 26. 3 cm with a standard deviation of 1. 2 cm.

In economics, a study ( done by Pew Charitable Trusts, the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Urban Institute ) challenged the notion that each generation will be better off than the one that preceded it.

The study, ' Economic Mobility: Is the American Dream Alive and Well?

* Smith, Gary Scott, Heaven in the American Imagination ( Oxford University Press ; 2011 ) 339 pages ; draws on art, music, folklore, sermons, literature, psychology, and other realms in a study of how Americans since the Puritans have imagined heaven.

Hefner donated $ 100, 000 to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts to create a course called " Censorship in Cinema ," and $ 2 million to endow a chair for the study of American film.

All three schools coordinate their educational programs with that of the undergraduate college and, like the college proper, place emphasis upon a broad liberal arts course as the proper foundation for specialized study.

The study of Greek was the distinctive mark of boys destined to go to college, and Lucy Upton too expected to go to college and take the full classical course offered to men.

Similarly, a girl who graduates with a good working knowledge of stenography and the use of clerical machines and who is able to get a job at once may wish to improve her skill and knowledge by a year or two of further study in a community college or secretarial school.

and whether to attend this or that college and to follow this or that course of study.

Usually at the age of 16 when students finish their secondary school studies, they move on to a sixth form college where they study for their A-levels ( although some secondary schools have integrated sixth forms ).

Caltech was found to offer the highest return of investment of college education, at $ 1, 713, 000 over a 30-year period, according to the same study.

LiveScience. com recaps new evidence showing that the most dangerous sport for high school and college females is cheerleading: Another study found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority ( 67 ) occurring in cheerleading.

At Francis C. Hammond High School in Alexandria, Virginia, he did poorly academically, having little interest in school work, but was popular with other students, and after leaving decided that he wanted to study painting at college, thereby beginning his studies at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1964, where he was a roommate of Peter Wolf.

He returned to college after serving nearly four years in the army, this time attending Mills College and studying under Darius Milhaud, who encouraged him to study fugue and orchestration, but not classical piano.

Misskelley and Echols had dropped out of high school ; however, Baldwin earned high grades and demonstrated a talent for drawing and sketching, and was encouraged by one of his teachers to study graphic design in college.

Sapir emphasized language study in his college years at Columbia, studying Latin, Greek and French for eight semesters.

In 1879, Munch enrolled in a technical college to study engineering, where he excelled in physics, chemistry, and math.

Moreover, the study found that the more the school departed from the traditional college preparatory program, the better was the record of the graduates.

* St. John's College, U. S. is a well-known secular liberal-arts college with an undergraduate program described as " an all-required course of study based on the great books of the Western tradition.

Interestingly, these patients are often first diagnosed when they have their first generalized tonic-clonic seizure later in life, when they experience sleep deprivation ( e. g., freshman year in college after staying up late to study for exams ).

After finishing the college in Osnabrück, he moved in 1827 to visit the University of Berlin to study theology.

At age 16, he returned to Montpelier, where he began a two-year course of study under the Reverend Thomas Martin in preparation for college.

A liberal arts college is one with a primary emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.

The college offers research partnerships for undergraduate students, and a variety of study abroad programs.

Brando's sister Frances left college in California to study art in New York.

The Université de Montréal and the Université de Sherbrooke are among the Québécois universities that admit physical rehabilitation technicians in their programs of study related to health science and rehabilitation in order to credit courses that were completed in college.

Scott went on to study at the Royal College of Art, contributing to college magazine ARK, and helping establish the college film department.